In 1992 the King's Fund Commission published a report `London health care 2010 : changing the future of services in the capital'. This report was unable to describe in any detail the actual delivery of acute medical care in London. This required a more indepth study of care based on ...

During the past two years, some of the most important and frequently recurring problems raised at discussions in the Hospital Administrative Staff college were related to hospital bed occupancy. In order to provide some material on which to base lectures and discussions for the courses held at the college, a ...

This report looked into the causes giving rise to unoccupied beds in a particular group of hospitals. The results of the survey are included in three sections to the report: beds temporarily closed; beds vacant between the discharge and admission of patients; analysis showing the relative incidence of vacancy in ...